80
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world.
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80
A tender, indignant, but also very worldly movie.
75
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
While Jaoui's film is interesting to watch, it dawdles enough to lose its storytelling grip.
80
Directed by Agnès Jaoui, who made the equally delightful "The Taste of Others," this comedy of manners with a serious purpose centers on a group of loosely connected neurotics, all working in the rarefied worlds of amateur chorales.
80
Punchy dialogue, excellent thesping and a real feel for the universal tuning fork of great classical music make this a prime candidate for international arthouse play.
100
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The wry filmmaker has created an urbane society of family and friends as ridiculously pretentious and hypocritical as they are cultured, accomplished, and posh.
60
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
The multitalented Jaoui and Bacri excel on every level; her direction is efficient and unobtrusive, their script dissects the nuances of corruption by celebrity with a razor-sharp scalpel, and they deliver a pair of subtly unsparing performances.
70
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Little in a Jaoui film is particularly original, but it's all perfectly convincing.
88
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
This bonbon spiked with malice is a triumph for Jaoui, who takes witty and wounding measure of the small betrayals that leave bruises on us all.
70
The film satisfies in much the same way Allen's movie-a-year comedies used to satisfy.